Our licenced counseling center works with children experiencing a variety of challenges.

Counseling Program

Therapy helps a child develop new skills and coping strategies to help them be successful in their day-to-day activities. Therapy also gives families support in providing children with a safe, loving and structured environment. Our clinicians use therapeutic techniques appropriate to the child’s developmental stage. Child Crisis Arizona provides various resources to families in need.

Child Crisis Arizona has contracts to provide children’s counseling by two highly skilled licensed therapists.
VP of Programs, Courtney Kleinebreil, who has 20 years of professional experience and is a licensed therapist, oversees this program.

Our clinical staff has training and certifications in the following:

Birth to 5 certification

Trauma-focused CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) training

General CBT training

DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) certification

Youth Trauma Professional certification

Clinical Trauma Professional certification

Forensic Interviewing training

Sand Tray certification

Play therapy experience

Art therapy experience

Substance Abuse therapy certification

Relatives as Parents (RAP) Groups: Monthly support group for families who are experiencing similar foster/kinship family situations to network, receive resources and support one another.

Goals

The counseling/behavioral health program has been able to maintain existing funding and services since rebuilding and restructuring in early 2016. It is imperative to grow this program in order to stay competitive and relevant in the behavioral health field.

Behavioral Health affects all of our lives and is an important piece of a child welfare/human service agency. We recently joined the AZ Council and they have a great networking opportunity for us to learn more and grow our Behavioral Health Services to the children and families we serve.

We are currently exploring opportunities to diversify funding sources, expand services offered. (i.e. after school behavioral health care, groups for our shelter children, services to our foster children, plus an additional and more central location in Phoenix).